This colourful and clear resources shows students sentence openers, challenging vocabulary, punctuation and connectives that could be used in their writing.
This is very helpful across curriculum for both creative writing and non fiction writing.
When printed in colour and laminated the edges can be scored with scissors so that they bend into a pyramid shape. The tab can then be stapled / sellotaped closed.
Two games for use with VCOP. One is a Sentence Openers game - build a paragraph by rolling a dice and follwing the instructions. The second is a board game based on the Fiery Ideas ‘complication’ software. Topics also included: sentence structure and punctuation.
A collection of ideas to develop use of Ros Wilson VCOP (vocabulary, connectives, sentence openers and connectives) collated from TES primary thread. Topics also included: word work; sentence structure and punctuation.
Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills.
Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, these lessons aim to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate vocabulary, connectives, sentence openings, and punctuation. Each lesson follows a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Defining;
- Identifying;
- Analysing;
- Creating;
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills.
Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate sentence openers, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Defining the different words that they can use to vary how they open sentences;
- Identifying varied openers in humorous writing examples;
- Analysing varied openings in an interesting descriptive passage;
- Creating a descriptive piece, using varied sentence openers;
- Peer or self evaluating the effectiveness of their varied sentence openers.
Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided.
This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.
This is a simple version of the VCOP pyramid I created on PowerPoint that allows you to customise and use in a wide variety of ways.
It can be printed and resized to suit a variety of purposes.
Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills.
Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate vocabulary, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Defining word types;
- Identifying varied vocabulary in humorous writing examples;
- Analysing varied vocabulary in an interesting descriptive passage;
- Creating their descriptive piece, using varied vocabulary;
- Peer or self evaluating their varied vocabulary attempts.
Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided.
This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.
72 starters- one starter per slide. Or can be used for literacy intervention lessons.
Easy to read, clear font and design. Suit KS2, KS3 and KS4.
All starters are for English and Literacy.
Starters focus mostly on: SPAG, VCOP, word classes and devices.
Print slides for lower ability to work on or ask them to choose 3 questions only from the ones given.
Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills.
Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate connectives in their writing, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Defining connectives types;
- Identifying connectives in humorous writing examples;
- Analysing connectives in an interesting descriptive passage;
- Creating a descriptive piece, using varied connectives;
- Peer or self evaluating their writing attempts, and in particular the use of connectives
Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided.
This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.
Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills.
Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate punctuation, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Defining punctuation marks;
- Identifying varied vocabulary in humorous writing examples;
- Analysing varied vocabulary in an interesting descriptive passage;
- Creating their descriptive piece, using varied vocabulary;
- Peer or self evaluating their varied vocabulary attempts.
Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided.
This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.
A Learning Mat to aid with literacy skills; includes common errors, 'VCOP', sentence structure, paragraphing, grammar advice and reading skills.
This can be used as a mat placed on desks each lesson to aid with English or literacy in other subjects and ensures students are equipped when writing. It could also be used as a learning poster or display.
